Clinical trials: open to volunteers, sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Type 1 Diabetes
GLP-1Ra Impact on Metabolic Outcomes in Stage 2 T1DM While Receiving Teplizumab
The goal of this study is to determine how a drug class called glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1Ra) affects people during an early stage of Type 1 Diabetes undergoing clinical teplizumab treatment.
- Trial name
- GLP-TEP (NCT06338553)
- Testing
- Semaglutide (Rybelsus®)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Diabetes, Insulin Resistance
Physiologic and Functional Adaptations of Insulin Sensitive Tissues
The long-term goal is to understand the mechanisms of intestinal nutrient sensing and signal relays to insulin sensitive tissues (adipose, skeletal muscle, liver) in humans.
- Conditions
- Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Bariatric Surgery Candidate
- Trial name
- NCT03407833
- Testing
- Endoscopy biopsy, Surgical biopsy, Mixed-meal tolerance test
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Osteoarthritis, Knee, Total Knee Arthroplasty
Reducing Perioperative Oxidative Stress to Prevent Postoperative Chronic Pain Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
This is a prospective randomized controlled trial that will assess preoperative, perioperative, and long-term oxidative stress (OS); pain; and functional outcomes over a 12 month period and test the hypothesis that a potent…
- Conditions
- Osteoarthritis, Knee, Total Knee Arthroplasty, Chronic Postsurgical Pain
- Trial name
- NCT06083480
- Testing
- GlyNAC (combination of glycine and n-acetylcysteine)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 148 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Childhood Obesity
The ADAPT Trial: Adapting Evidence-Based Obesity Interventions in Community Settings
Evidence-based obesity treatment is inaccessible to most children in the United States. This lack of access is a source of health inequity, whereby children from rural and minority communities, who have the highest rates of…
- Trial name
- NCT06546696
- Testing
- Competency Based Approaches to Community Health (COACH)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 750 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Splanchnic Venous Capacitance in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) affects ≈3 million young people, characterized by chronic presyncopal symptoms characterized by dizziness, lightheadedness, and orthostatic tachycardia that occur while standing.
- Trial name
- NCT05375968
- Testing
- Measurement of Splanchnic venous capacitance(SVC)done at Baseline and after 90 min of 75 g glucose in Healthy Controls POTS patients, Measurement of Splanchnic venous capacitance(SVC)done at Baseline and after 90 min of 75 g glucose in Healthy Controls, Compare change is SVC and SMA flow due to GIP antagonist GIP(3-30)NH2
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tourette Syndrome, Tic Disorder
Sensorimotor and Psychosocial Trajectories in Adolescents With Tic Disorder
Individuals with tic disorders have lower quality of life, sensory and movement difficulties, and poorer mental, social, and physical health compared to the general population.
- Trial name
- NCT06576726
- Testing
- This study involves no intervention.
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 351 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
Autoimmune Basis for Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
The purpose of this study is to see if some people with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) have higher levels of immune proteins (autoantibodies) directed against receptors of the autonomic nervous system, and if these…
- Conditions
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome, Tachycardia, Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Trial name
- NCT02725060
- Testing
- phenylephrine, isoproterenol, 25 micro-Ci of radiation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 58 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Parents, Self Efficacy
Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency
This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals.
- Conditions
- Parents, Self Efficacy, Mental Health Literacy, Psychiatric Emergency
- Trial name
- iPEACE (NCT06456762)
- Testing
- iPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED, Text Messaging Reminders Only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
C-section, Vaginal Seeding
MOdification Of THe Early-Life Respiratory Microbiome Through Vaginal SEEDing
This is a single-center, parallel-arm, blind, sham-controlled, feasibility randomized controlled trial (RCT) to be conducted in healthy cesarean-born children.
- Conditions
- C-section, Vaginal Seeding, Respiratory, Microbiome
- Trial name
- MOTHER SEED (NCT05505110)
- Testing
- Vaginal Seeding, Sterile Swab
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Wearable Technology to Evaluate Hyperglycemia and HRV in DMD - Longitudinal Aim
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked disorder that causes muscle wasting, cardiopulmonary failure, and premature death.
- Trial name
- NCT06093100
- Testing
- wearable technology
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Supine Hypertension, Autonomic Failure
Treatment of Supine Hypertension in Autonomic Failure (CPAP)
Supine hypertension is a common problem that affects at least 50% of patients with primary autonomic failure. Supine hypertension can be severe and complicates the treatment of orthostatic hypotension.
- Trial name
- NCT03312556
- Testing
- continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Glucose, Metabolism
Tracing Of Real-time glu13Cose Metabolism in Human Immune Cells
The purpose of this study is to understand how cells of the immune system use the common sugar glucose to fuel energy production and as a building block within the cell.
- Conditions
- Glucose, Metabolism, Isotope Labeling, Immune System and Related Disorders
- Trial name
- TORCH (NCT06930976)
- Testing
- 13C6-Glucose
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bariatric Surgery Candidate, Cardiovascular Diseases
Gut Microbiota in Metabolic Surgery
Metabolic surgery is an emerging option to treat obesity-related metabolic diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes) and prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD).
- Conditions
- Bariatric Surgery Candidate, Cardiovascular Diseases, Type 2 Diabetes, Dyslipidemias
- Trial name
- NCT05000996
- Testing
- Bariatric Surgery
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Head and Neck Cancer
Tissue Sample Collection From Patients With Head and Neck Cancer and From Healthy Participants
RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of tissue, saliva, and blood from patients with cancer and from healthy participants to study in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future.
- Trial name
- NCT00898638
- Testing
- biologic sample preservation procedure, medical chart review
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Gender Dysphoria
Polyethylene-glycol Assisted Nerve Repair in Phalloplasty
Phalloplasty, a genitourinary surgery for transmasculine patients, reconstructs a neophallus using tissue transferred from other parts of the body to the groin.
- Trial name
- NCT05897086
- Testing
- Polyethylene Glycol 3350
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Congenital Heart Disease, Congenital Heart Defect
Nitric Oxide Effect on Brain and Kidney in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass
The goals of this study are: 1. To evaluate the neuroprotective effect of nitric oxide by measuring glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP) before and after surgery.
- Conditions
- Congenital Heart Disease, Congenital Heart Defect, Congenital Heart Malformations
- Trial name
- NCT05101746
- Testing
- Nitric Oxide (NO) 20 part per million (ppm), Standard of care cardiopulmonary bypass
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center